![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Following this, several of his New York Press columns became the core of his first book, Teen Angst? Naaah. ![]() In May 1998, Vizzini's essay "Teen Angst? Nah!" appeared in The New York Times. The success of Vizzini's work earned him an invitation to contribute a teen-focused article to the New York Times Magazine. As a freelance writer for the paper, he wrote about everything from family vacations to getting drunk in the street with other kids. Vizzini's first published work was an essay he submitted to the New York Press, an alternative newspaper, about winning honorable mention at the 1996 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Vizzini's characters and situations are said to be based upon his time spent at Stuyvesant. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, graduating in 1999. Vizzini grew up primarily in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He was found dead in his native Brooklyn, New York after an apparent suicide from a fall, aged 32. Vizzini had depression, spending time in a psychiatric ward in his early 20s, and authoring several works about the illness. He was the author of four books for young adults including It's Kind of a Funny Story, which NPR named #56 of the "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" and which is the basis of the film of the same name. Edison Price Vizzini (Ap– December 19, 2013) was an American writer. ![]()
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